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Chase This Light by Jimmy Eat World
Chase This Light is an album by Jimmy Eat World, released in 2007. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 27 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Big Casino”, on 19 lists with a best position of #19.
Chase This Light, Jimmy Eat World's sixth album, landed on Interscope on October 16, 2007, and it's the Mesa, Arizona, four-piece going straight for the big, bright chorus. They started on it in late 2005, cut demos early the next year and recorded with engineer Chris Testa in Arizona and California between August 2006 and May 2007, breaking off for tours along the way. Butch Vig signed on as executive producer, acting as a sounding board rather than running the sessions.
What came out is polished power pop with a pop-punk kick, Jim Adkins and Tom Linton's guitars chiming big enough to draw comparisons to U2 and the Outfield, with Rick Burch and Zach Lind driving hard underneath. "Big Casino" led the charge and "Always Be" followed, critics heard a return to the Bleed American days, and it became the highest-charting album the band had made.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Chase This Light on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Casino | 19 | #19 | – | 2007–2008 | |
| 2 | Always Be | 8 | #37 | – | 2007–2008 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.